Mabon Wine — Hand-Dyed Worsted Yarn

Mabon is the second harvest, the wine harvest. The fruit comes in at its ripest at the exact moment the light starts losing, and the whole shape of the festival is that both of those are true at once. You gather in, you count what you actually have, and you admit you are heading into the dark half from here.

Mabon Wine is a variegated harvest colorway: rose over plum over marigold, with brown running underneath like turned earth showing through a cut field. Dyed in streaks rather than a smooth fade, so the colors interrupt each other the way a harvest field does. Worsted weight, for the things you want finished before the cold sets in.

Mabon colorway. Limited to this dyelot.

Base: Golden Orb
Fiber: 100% Superwash Merino
Weight: Worsted
Skein weight: 100g
Yardage: ~218 yards (200m)
Ply: 4-ply
Needle size: US 7–9 (4.5–5.5mm)
Gauge: 20 sts / 28 rows per 4 inches on US 8
Dye method: Hand-dyed variegated with professional acid dyes

Care: Hand wash cold. Lay flat to dry. Do not wring or machine dry.

As with all hand-dyed yarn, each skein carries slight variation in tone and saturation. Alternate skeins every two rows when working with more than one skein of the same colorway.